What is going on in my brain? What is the chemical mechanism? Why cant I just tell my brain to stop craving the substance? Why is the addiction removing all of my inhibitions?
This is hell.
In: Biology
You know how, as a kid, you love going outside to play? With addiction you need to go a little further every time because if you always go just as far it gets boring.
Eventually, you go so far that when you look back you can’t see your home even though you still know the way back.
Unfortunately, for too many, they go so far from home to play they forget their way home. Sometimes these people find a different way home, and sometimes they don’t. When they’re far away from home they start believing they’ll never make it back so they may as well keep playing, or that people don’t even want them to come back even though they do.
Addiction is like playing. Some people just never want to stop having fun even though they need to rest, and it becomes the sole focus in their life.
This is why we have to make children do the things they don’t want to because otherwise they do only what they want. Addiction is similar, you can’t always do the thing you want, and sometimes it’s better if you never do it at all. (Side note: probably a good justification for never giving children even a taste of soda, or ice cream, and the like because they end up always wanting it. You have to explain why it’s bad though because “I said so” doesn’t work.)
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